FILE STRUCTURES

[As per Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) scheme]

(Effective from the academic year 2017 - 2018)

SEMESTER - VI

Subject Code 17IS62

IA Marks 40

Number of Lecture Hours/Week 4

Exam Marks 60

17IS62 - FILE STRUCTURES

TEXT BOOK MODULE WISE - MODULE - 1

Michael J. Folk, Bill Zoellick, Greg Riccardi:File Structures-An Object Oriented Approach with C++, 3rd Edition, Pearson Education, 1998.

CONTENTS

MODULE - 1

Introduction, File Structures, ,The Heart of the file structure Design,A Short History of File Structure Design,A Conceptual Toolkit, Fundamental File Operations,Physical Files and Logical Files,Opening Files,Closing Files, ,Reading and Writing,Seeking,Special Characters,The Unix Directory Structure, ,Physical devices and Logical Files,File-related Header Files,UNIX file System Commands, Secondary Storage and System Software,Disks,Magnetic Tape, ,Disk versus Tape, CD-ROM, ,Introduction,Physical Organization,Strengths and Weaknesses,Storage as Hierarchy,A journey of a Byte,Buffer Management, ,Input /Output in UNIX. Fundamental File Structure Concepts, Managing Files of Records ,Field and Record Organization,Using Classes to Manipulate Buffers,Using Inheritance for Record Buffer Classes,Managing Fixed Length,Fixed Field Buffers,An Object-Oriented Class for Record Files,Record Access,More about Record Structures,Encapsulating Record Operations in a Single Class,File Access and File Organization.